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Owens Industries Acquired: What the Deal Means for Metal 3D Printing

AFM Capital Partners has acquired Owens Industries through its portfolio company, Pro Products, adding one of Wisconsin’s leading ultra-precision CNC machining companies to its manufacturing platform. Owens makes very accurate,…

Communicating Vessels: Four 3D Printing Markets

Of late, I’ve been considering the 3D printing market not as a single, unified industry but as four distinct markets, each with its own needs. Rather than segmenting the market…

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Convergent Manufacturing Demonstration at IMTS 2024 Brings Additive and Subtractive Technologies Together

Aristotle said the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. He must have been into manufacturing, because when technologies converge, the system accomplishes tasks the parts cannot. This…